Max and I have had a chat, and we're gunna be over smhall.bsky.social mainly now. See you there! 🦋🐕🦋🐕🦋🐕

The corporate infantilisation of workers. Bean bag chairs, pool tables and lucky bags instead of unions, pensions and full time contracts

Today was a big day - our last Austerity + Altered Life-Courses team meeting in our current form. New adventures to follow for us all. Thank you Santi, Laura Fenton Liz Ackerley @TheAlisonBriggs @BudworthPoppy and Hazel. Here's to friendship ❤️✊️ And creative energy 😉😉

Not scrapping the previous Government’s planned deep benefit cuts for disabled people, and cracking down on "benefit fraud" is really upsetting to hear as the first mention of policies that impact low income households in the #Budget25.

Future Lives & Austerity- a digital exhibition 📆10-5pm Wed 6 Nov 2024 📌Central Library, Manchester Sharing Austerity + Altered Life-Courses research on how austerity impacts everyday lives & hopes for the future. Everyone welcome - drop in! #McrESRCFest #ESRCFestival festivalofsocialscience.com/events/future-…

The UK’s first ever female Chancellor has today delivered a budget with some promising green shoots for women. But we need greater ambition both on changes to taxes and on the levels and areas of investment, and on social security. Read our response here: wbg.org.uk/article/some-p…

“Investment in infrastructure will be a lifeline for a country that’s crumbling. But meagre 1.5% raises for government departments expose a spending double standard: it’s prudent to fix a road but wasteful to ease child poverty.” Me on the Budget panel. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Budget thoughts: Austerity doesn't end just because you say it has. Labour should reinvest where drastic cuts were made, focus on lifting people out of poverty + fix crumbling social (not just physical) infrastructure. Tinkering around the edges when we need real transformation.

🎟️ EMMANUEL CHURCH, BARNSLEY | CONCERT Tickets are now on sale for our annual Christmas concert at Emmanuel Church on Friday 20th December. 📆 Friday 20th December 🕑 7:30 PM 📍 Emmanuel Church, Barnsley 🙌 Let us know if you’re coming! ℹ️ Tickets: grimethorpeband.co.uk/shop/concert-e…

Curious to learn more about our online zine making workshop? The online zines are now posted on our website together with some reflections from workshop's participants. Thank you all so much for the rich and generative discussion and for the generous feedback!! 🙏💜

Deeply disturbing to learn that F-35 components have been covertly sent to Israel via British airbases & Heathrow, enabling 2000lb bombs to be dropped on Gaza. Shipments have continued under Labour, therefore actively facilitating genocide & war crimes. End ALL arms sales NOW.

UK austerity policies ‘increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies’ theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

We've a busy week here Austerity + Altered Life-Courses. Tomorrow, we'll be at MCR Central Library from 10-5 with our exhibition on Future Lives and Austerity (also available on our website). Come to listen, chat, and be impressed at how we managed to fit it all in one small suitcase! 🎧💭💼

This week we're also holding a creative methods session with our mcr anti-poverty research community partners, co-delivered with the amazing Inspire Women Oldham community researchers. For more on this work, including a co-created framework, see our website: socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/…

Thanks to everyone who has come to visit the exhibition today! We've enjoyed sharing stories of future lives and austerity and listening to people's responses. You can visit the whole exhibition here: socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/…

It's already Thursday! We're co-delivering this session today with Inspire Women Oldham. Wondering about the little icons? We use these on each slide as a reminder of who is leading/speaking! What would your icon be?!

We've been playing with collaborative collaging to think, reflect and engage together. First at our team away day, then at our recent symposium, and also today as part of a creative workshop (see pic). It's a great way to create a collective output that's quick, fun and easy! 1/2

We've got two new free resources to share from our project! First is a guide on Researching Austerity published by Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) You can download as a PDF here: rgs.org/research/resea… (1/2)

Second is a new Methods@Manchester podcast episode about our Oral Histories and Futures method, ft team members Laura Fenton and Liz Ackerley which you can listen to here: open.spotify.com/episode/2ubEnx… Thanks to all those who have supported these outputs!

You can find us in the other place! at austerityalters.bsky.social